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Announcing the Winner of the Rockstar Table Tennis Grand Prize Video Contest!

In the fall of 2007, in celebration of the release of Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis for Nintendo Wii, Rockstar Games collaborated with promotional partners Joola and Xanga.com to launch the Freakishly Fit Campus Table Tennis Tour. Spanning 30 colleges across America, the tour hosted Table Tennis tournaments at every stop. Blistering head to head Table Tennis for the Wii battle ensued. When the dust finally settled, the winners of each campus tourney were invited to enter self produced videos demonstrating their Table Tennis prowess to the Rockstar Games/Xanga Table Tennis Video Contest in a bid to win the grand prize of $5000, and ultimate bragging rights as the most Freakishly Fit. Videos were judged by the users of Xanga in a voting period from January 31, 2008 though March 19, 2008.

The votes have been tallied, and the winner is David McCary, a 4th year film studies student from the University of Southern California. His video tells the story of an underdog: a Table Tennis prodigy who, having been shaken to his core by a table tennis tragedy, takes another shot at greatness with the aid of Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis for the Wii. It's a story of heartache, struggle, and finally, redemption.

- Name: Table Tennis
- Country: United States
- State: New York
- Member Since: 9/12/2003
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University of North Carolina
- 11/23/2007 6:10 PM
DePaul University Chicago

"The Table Tennis Wii promotion at DePaul was a great success and, for the second year in a row, full of kids truly excited about video games. We teamed up with the DeFrag Gaming Club and took over their large computer lab at the downtown DePaul campus. DeFrag members are all serious gamers. We had 32 sign-ups and around 50 people present for the promotion. Competition was heated. These gamers were in it to win it, and towards the end, some hearts were broken when the coveted Joola ping pong table eluded some of the finalists' grasps. The last few matches were very close and the gamers that had just learned how to play the game that day, by the final rounds were playing like pros." - Chess Hubbard / DePaul
- 11/16/2007 3:23 PM
Wisconsin

"The Wii tournament was awesome. The event was held at one of Wisconsin's south east dorms in the heart of campus. Students from all around checkout out the game. Everyone had a blast competing and eating and just hanging out. The final game came right down to the wire, and after a solid hour and a half of competition we finally found our victor." - Charlie Berens / Wisconsin
- 11/8/2007 11:08 PM

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West Coast
SFSU	10/15
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	10/16
University of California, Riverside (UCR)	10/19
Stanford	10/21
UNLV	10/23
Arizona State	10/24
University of Arizona	10/25
UC San Diego	10/28
UCLA	10/29
USC	10/30

MidWest
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Penn State	10/19
Ohio State	10/22
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Bowling Green State University	10/24
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Depaul	10/30
University of Wisconsin	10/31
University of Illinois	11/1
Purdue	11/2
Indiana	11/3

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Rock n' Swap	10/14
Rock n' Swap After Party	10/14
Drummer from Janes Addiction and Banyon plus Basses from Ongio Boingo join Mutaytor for a Special 1 Night Joint Performance	10/18
University of California, Riverside	10/19
Stanford hosts The 2007 JOOLA North American Tour Finals	10/20
Houston Texans at San Diego Chargers Tailgate Sampling	10/27
CSU-Long Beach	10/29

MidWest
CMJ Party *Invite Only	10/17
Rutgers vs. South Forida Aftergame Sampling	10/18
Bangels vs. Jets Tailgate Sampling	10/21
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Michigan Law Party	10/26
Wolverines vs Gophers Tailgate Sampling	10/27
New England vs. Indianapolis Tailgate Sampling	11/4

East Coast
CMJ Party *Invite Only	10/17
Georgia Tech	10/27
New England vs. Indianapolis Tailgate Sampling	11/4